Untitled V, 2015, Acid on canvas with metal-infused enamel and zinc/aluminium coating , 150 x 90 cm
23.10 - 21.11.2015
Opening: 23.10.2015, 5-8pm
The exhibited works for KONTROL are all part of a larger on-going research project, in which Kristian Kragelund, through his work with process based paintings and sculptures, seeks to examine and trace the relevance of a Western structural dominance reflected in contemporary art and culture.
The paintings are seen as a response to a current fragmentation of values, where rigid hegemonic and imperial cognitions are disintegrating, and where the individual is left to define her own authenticity and reality through the midst of endless information feeds and sensual stimulants; a state where institutional critique and recognition paradoxically are manifested as means of resistance and a necessity of (self) control and definition.
Based on this thesis, the works for KONTROL is made by treating a historically charged support - the canvas on a wooden stretcher – with a variety of homemade metal-infused paints, acid solutions and industrial components such as zinc phosphate or heat resistant enamels. The compositional structure of the surface is arranged in ways that resembles or mimic that of an abstract modernist visual language, based on a sterilized outlook on forms inspired by architecture and infrastructure - in an attempt to render a visual correlation of form and content, expression and function, action and purpose.
Kristian Kragelund (b.1987 DK) graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK - BA Fine Art i 2014 and studied at New York Film Academy, Pratt Institute, NYC and The European Film College, Ebeltoft, Danmark. Selected exhibitions: A Sequence of Nows, Display Gallery, London, UK, 2015. When Words Collide II, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, DK 2015. Arcane Studios, London, UK, 2014. The Hix Award 2014 - Cock'n'Bull Gallery, London, UK. May Occur, The Rag Factory, London, UK, 2014. Star, Food and Wine, Waxwing Exhibitions, London, UK, 2013. Art at Treberfydd - Treberfydd House, Wales, UK, 2013.
Untitled I, 2015, Acid on canvas with steel-infused ship varnish , 152 x 112 cm
Untitled II, 2015, Acid on canvas with metal-infused enamel and zinc/aluminium coating , 150 x 90 cm
Untitled IV, 2015, Acid on canvas with metal-infused enamel and zinc/aluminium coating , 150 x 90 cm
Untitled III, 2015, Acid on canvas with metal-infused enamel and zinc/aluminium coating , 150 x 90 cm
KONTROL. Installation view.
KONTROL. Installation view.